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DESCRIPTIONS OF APPLES. 



Tree vigorous, upright, compact while young, spread- 

 ing with "the weight of fruit, never large ; the shoots 

 rather slender, red, dark; Leaves medium, rather narrow, 

 wider towards the end, dark, footstalks red. The stems 

 of these trees are characterized by curious enlargements 

 of an irregular, mammellar form, and reddish color, and 

 appear to be like the knaurs of the olive tree. 



When this apple was first brought to the notice of the 

 Cincinnati Horticultural Society, twenty years ago, it was 



Fig. 172. BUCKINGHAM. 



thought to resemble the Winter Queen of Kentucky so 

 closely that it was considered only a variety or sport, and 

 called the Striped Fall Queen^ but it has since been deem- 

 ed a distinct sort. 



Fruit large to very large, variable in form, but gener- 

 ally conical, or oblate-conic, truncated, angular ; Surface 



